Terror Infinity - Volume 22 - Chapter 8.1

Chapter 8.1

“I am team East Sea’s leader, and these are my teammates . I want to meet your admiral . ”

As team China rushed to the Diaoyu Islands, team East Sea instead made a detour to elsewhere . It was the location of the United States Seventh Fleet, the USA’s fleet stationed at Japan . To be more accurate, it was the location of a patrolling ship .

Such an ordinary fishing vessel wasn't rare in the Pacific . But they were rarer during this sort of storm . Normal fishing vessels would enter the nearest port, and resume their tasks when the storm passed . Thus, when this fishing vessel appeared, those warships sent out a message for them to stop and receive a inspection . At the same time, the naval soldiers were in a state of alert .

When team East Sea said this bluntly, the inspecting soldiers immediately aimed their guns at them agitatedly . Pearl Harbour’s situation had long since spread across the world . Practically every country’s troops had already received a detailed report . That mysterious team possessed great combat power, enough to even annihilate a fleet, as well as technology that surpassed this era . One shot of that Magic Cannon had far surpassed nuclear weapons . That was why the countries on the way were trying their best to find team China .

And obviously, the people before them were related to that mysterious team . . .

“We are international police from the future . Our goal is to arrest a smuggling organisation that entered this time period illegally . Our team is called team East Sea, with our specific jurisdiction being the East Sea area . As that smuggling gang brought advanced scientific weapons invented in the future, us who didn’t bring future weapons aren’t their match . So, we need the countries of this era to help . ” Team East Sea leader Miyata Kuraki said to the officers before him, with the most important senior members of team East Sea behind him .

This was the first thing Adam had told them to do . They were to unite all the countries’ troops capturing team China in the identity of future international police . Team East Sea would use team China’s schemes and plans from the start for their own . Although team China would find their location, team East Sea would obtain an equivalent influence .

Don’t look down on a naval fleet, especially in this Perfect Storm weather and endless sea . Particularly in a situation when God had restricted flying equipment, modern warship’s anti-ship missiles were enough to kill several of team China’s members . Although team China had said before it would take an entire fleet to suppress them, that was in terms of a melee combat . If it was long-range battle at several kilometres or more, it would be a difficult battle for team China if they were found by the United States Seventh Fleet .

“There’s no need to doubt this . Chu Xuan loves risk, but there is stability within that risk, and changes within the stability . Until the final moment, we won’t know his true goal . But, when we know his true goal, he won’t be far from losing . So, why not be pushed to a corner, and use his risk to break his stability . Turn this stability into your ‘influence’ . That way, you’ll have a chance of survival . ” Miyata Kuraki remembered what Adam had said before to him .

If they were to do it their way, they would have initiated a attack at the first moment when the navy did an inspection, then escape as fast as they could, snatching a warship if possible . That way, they’ll be able to escape even faster, but at that time, they’ll have fallen into Chu Xuan’s scheme . They would have suffered an endless wave of attacks by the navies on the way, completely slowing down their speed until team China caught them . They would have then fallen into a hopeless situation .

But what about if they followed the opposite way that Adam had suggested? Indeed, they had a high chance of occupying the height of ‘influence’ . But at the same time… they no longer had a way to retreat, and had to fight to the bitter end with team China . . .

When he thought of this, Miyata Kuraki looked at the kimono girl besides him . The girl was currently deep in thought, frowning and her head bowed, as if there was some impossibly hard question waiting for her .

Not discussing the expressions of the team East Sea members for now, the officers before them were dumbfounded . After a long time, a navy admiral in his fifties or sixties finally asked, “What evidence do you have?”

Miyata Kuraki didn’t hesitate . He took out a metal box from his chest area . “As transporting technological items will cause a heavy disturbance in spacetime, they have always been restricted . This item is something we need to complete our mission . It can display all the living things within ten kilometres through thermal and present them on a 3D image . You all can test it out . It’s no problem if you research its technologies and mechanism before the smuggling group appears . However, please return it to us before the battle . ”

In truth, this was just a small item . It’s radius was far from ten kilometres and it had limited electricity . Although its price for exchange from God wasn’t expensive, it was a waste for teams with psyche force users . However, they didn’t say this out loud . They also made a show of this being very important, so that they could lower the guard of the officers before them .

As expected, the officers gingerly received that metal box . The admiral in the lead extended his hand and pressed a button . A blue and red map appeared on top of the box . The blue diagram outlined the shape of the warship, while the red diagram represented the personnel moving about on-board . The model looked marvellous and this item was at least unconstructible with the current level of technology . Too many types of science were involved within, like the biothermal scanning and scaling down of components that let such a small box accomplish this scan . Any person with slight general knowledge would feel shocked .

The officers had been rather unconcerned at first, and even thought this group were likely lunatics or liars . They may even be children of businessman or high ranking government officials who came here to role play out of boredom . Although playing around like this in such a Perfect Storm was a little too stupid, but anyhow they didn’t care very much . It was only when team East Sea took out this object that they knew that these people didn’t have an ordinary background . Whether or not their background was real, at least… they no longer had the qualifications to confirm them .

“Wait a moment . I think that the Pentagon would be happy to discuss the situation in the future with you . ”

***

“The basic situation is like that . We can confirm that team East Sea has made contact with the United States Seventh Fleet, and is under their protection . ” Xuan sat in the meeting room, saying as if nothing important had happened .

“Eh? This is Adam’s scheme? It’s not much . Won’t we find their location soon if so? Wasn’t Adam very smart?” The rookie at the side, Lin Juntian, asked curiously .

Heng, who was besides him, said immediately, “Adam should be very smart . In the movie in the past, we were nearly eradicated by team Celestial . We’ve also experienced their schemes and conspiracies . I also know something . A scheme in the dark, no longer how good, can’t be compared to easily understood open and aboveboard schemes . This is because the more obvious they are, the harder it is to set up such schemes . Is that right?”

Before Xuan said anything, Honglu already nodded certainly . “That’s so . It’s like chess . You can see each and every move clearly, but you aren’t able to block a stronger opponent’s attacks . Step by step, until you completely lose . No matter how we react to the move Adam made, he’ll have room to manoeuvre . This is an open and above board scheme . Do you know how to break such things?’

Honglu smiled . Without waiting for a reply, he said, “Breaking open and above board schemes is simple . It’s the same logic as chess . Do you know what the taboo is in chess? It’s to go to the positions your opponent wants you to . Wherever the opponent wants us to go, we’ll just not go there . Next, we’ll go straight to the Diaoyu Islands . ”

“Go straight to the Diaoyu Islands?” Everyone recited in tandem . Several involuntarily looked at Xuan .

Xuan didn’t say anything, and his head remained lowered as he looked at his documents . It was as if the matter had nothing to do with him . Honglu bluntly said to the rest, “Correct . From now on, we will no longer chase after team East Sea . Let them run if they want to, we’ll ignore them . Our destination! The Diaoyu Islands! We’ll give them a pleasant surprise there!”

“Is… is this the so-called 'lose' you two spoke of?” Zheng asked curiously .

Honglu gave Zheng a look . Sighing, he said, “Although I don’t want to admit it, but this is a loss to Xuan . After all, we’re merely passively reacting to a scheme after falling into it . We have no choice but to avoid the opponent’s scheme . This fits the meaning of ‘loss’, especially to Xuan . Otherwise, what did you think this was? If we didn’t even have this level of reaction, it would be impossible to trick Adam . He’ll sense it at the first moment and then he’ll obtain important information . We’ll be even more passive then in the final battle . ”

“To us, team East is simply too too weak, whether in wit or might . But at the same time, reaching this point is team China’s failure . In this battle, the ones with weaker combat power amongst us are in mortal danger . After all, missiles aren’t toys . This is already a loss, or at least the loss we need to show Adam . ”